A Way in the World Author:V. S. Naipaul In his long-awaited and brilliantly innovative new novel, V.S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism. — Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include Sir Walter Raleigh, Fran... more »cisco Miranda, and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded -- and eventually martyred -- in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to Naipaul himself.« less